Beauty Workers

The strong afternoon sunlight created highlights and shadows on this spiky purple beauty of a plant. The bees and butterflies were busy, working their natural magic. Taking and leaving, all part of the cycle of life.

Don't ask me what the name of the flowering plant is. I'm willfully ignorant of the names of most plants. I depend on the kindness of family, friends and strangers to fill in the blanks in my horticultural knowledge.